{"id":2495,"date":"2010-09-07T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezing.net\/?p=475"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:34:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:34:29","slug":"spring-mba-grads-turn-heads-at-big-four-accounting-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/spring-mba-grads-turn-heads-at-big-four-accounting-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring MBA Grads Turn Heads at \u2018Big Four\u2019 Accounting Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Five spring graduates of the MBA program at the  University of Mississippi have landed jobs with Big Four accounting  firms.<br \/>\nBrandon Blewett of Houston, Texas, is an associate in state and  local tax at KPMG in Atlanta; Anne Drown of Covington, La., is an  associate in assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New  Orleans; Charlie House, formerly of Drew, is a staff accountant in  assurance services with Ernst and Young in Memphis; Blair McDonald of  Ruston, La., is an associate in advisory in federal financial management  and analysis at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington, D.C.; and Paul  Pak of Olive Branch is an enterprise risk services consultant for  business risk at Deloitte in Memphis.<br \/>\n&#8220;Besides performing with academic excellence, these students worked  hard to secure jobs, starting very early in their MBA programs,&#8221; said  Bethany Cooper, director of corporate relations and MBA services in the  School of Business Administration. &#8220;They possess strong networking  skills and understood the importance of making the job search a priority  alongside their studies.&#8221;<br \/>\nDrown and McDonald graduated from UM&#8217;s Patterson School of  Accountancy, and Pak earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree in finance from the UM  business school. Blewett graduated from Southern Methodist University  and the University of South Carolina Law School. 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